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...brothers got to them a year later. By then, Albert and David had pretty much patented the branch of documentary known as showbiz v?rit?. Showman, a profile of movie distributor Joe Levine (1963), What's Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A. (1964), A Visit With Truman Capote (1966), Meet Marlon Brando (1966) and the Rolling Stones' Altamont debacle Gimme Shelter (1970) all demonstrated v?rit?'s affinity for performers. A form of documentary that plants a two-person film crew (camera and sound) in a room with the subject, then waits for something to happen, v?rit? is dependent on exhibitionists, self...
...which the director says happened at least 50 times--Baron Cohen never dropped character. It's an impressive, perhaps insane, performance: Johnny Knoxville with a sense of humor, Andy Kaufman with a desire to please, Peter Sellers set loose on the public instead of David Niven. "It's like Marlon Brando's performance in On the Waterfront," says Charles. "Before that, everything was stylized, the John Barrymore school. After that, you couldn't act in the old style anymore. I believe that Sacha's performance does the same thing...
...national holidays - is one of the best-preserved examples of Thai vernacular architecture in Bangkok. Set amid lush greenery on South Sathorn Road, it belonged to former Prime Minister M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1911-1995), an Oxford-educated polymath whose life included stints in banking and acting (he played opposite Marlon Brando in The Ugly American...
...national holidays - is one of the best-preserved examples of Thai vernacular architecture in Bangkok. Set amid lush greenery on South Sathorn Road, it belonged to former Prime Minister M.R. Kukrit Pramoj (1911-1995), an Oxford-educated polymath whose life included stints in banking and acting (he played opposite Marlon Brando in The Ugly American). Kukrit took more than 20 years to complete his home. The living quarters consist of five one-room traditional teak houses, elevated on stilts and connected by a breezy open veranda. The sitting room features royal heirlooms such as a daybed from Kukrit's ancestor...
...brass buttons on his uniform at an early gig and became an overnight hit in 1952 with his own CBS variety show. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 1956 portrayal of a U.S. airman in a doomed romance with a Japanese woman in Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando. "I'm a little guy," Buttons once said, "and that's what I play all the time: a little guy and his troubles...